Section 2

Question

Answer

Anti-Communist hysteria subsided with the conclusion of the ______________.

Korean War

Eisenhower was the second president to appoint a woman to his ______________, a former Women's Army Corps commander and Texas newspaper publisher, to head the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

cabinet

For most of his two terms, Eisenhower presided over a ______________ government.

divided

As part of its Indian relocation program, the government wanted to move Native Americans to ______________.

cities

The Eisenhower administration was the first Republican administration after the ______________.

New Deal

Dwight Eisenhower's foreign policy differed from that of Harry Truman in its rhetoric, means, and movement toward accommodation with ______________.

the Soviet Union

France signed a truce with Vietnam after the fall of ______________ in 1954.

Dien Bien Phu

On July 26, 1956, Egypt's leader, Gamal Abdel Nasser, seized the ______________ as a response to Secretary of State John Foster Dulles's denial of American support for building the Aswan Dam.

Suez Canal

Dwight Eisenhower’s and ______________ 1955 summit conference in Geneva symbolized the lessening of tensions between the two superpowers.

Nikita Khrushchev's

The first Soviet satellite was called ______________.

Sputnik

The decline of the family farm and the growth of ______________ were causes and consequences of mechanization.

agribusiness

______________ designed vast suburban housing communities.

William J. Levitt

During the 1950s, masses of ______________ migrated to cities seeking economic opportunity.

African Americans

The technology of air-conditioning made possible industrial development in the so-called ______________.

Sun Belt

The ______________ allowed thousands of African Americans to attend college.

GI Bill

Evangelism, popularized by ______________, became a powerful force in the 1960s.

Billy Graham

In 1950, fewer than 10 percent of American households boasted a television set, but by 1960 approximately ______________ of all homes had one.